What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Pertinacity vs Persistency - What's the difference?

pertinacity | persistency | Related terms |

Pertinacity is a related term of persistency.


As nouns the difference between pertinacity and persistency

is that pertinacity is the state or characteristic of being pertinacious while persistency is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being persistent.

pertinacity

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
  • *1846 , E.A.Poe,
  • *:With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
  • *1851 , , The House of Seven Gables , ch. 19:
  • *:Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.

    • Synonyms

    * pertinaciousness, resolve, stubbornness, tenacity

    Anagrams

    *

    persistency

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being persistent.
  • * , King Henry IV, Part 2 , act 2, sc. 2:
    • Prince Henry : By this hand thou thinkest me as far in the devil's book as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and persistency .
  • * 1881 , . A Laodicean , ch. 5:
    • On entering her room he had been struck by the absence of that saucy independence usually apparent in her bearing towards him, notwithstanding the persistency with which he had hovered near her for the previous month.
  • * 1913 , :
    • However that may be, the hostility of the comic writers had evidently a general hostility behind it. Our tradition states this definitely and the persistency of the attacks proves it.
  • * 2008 March 29, Ed Pilkington, " The white house losers," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 6 July 2014):
    • "I'm not into mood changes," he says. "These ups and downs undermine consistency and persistency of purpose."
  • (countable) A measure of how much something persists.
  • * 1998 March 28, John Chapman, " Pensions Investigated," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 6 July 2014):
    • The table shows that three-year "persistencies " range from 89.6 per cent with Standard Life (this means only 10 per cent of plans have lapsed after three years) to 58.9 per cent with Sun Life (almost 40 per cent of plans lapse after three years).

    Usage notes

    * Less commonly used than the variant form, persistence .

    Synonyms

    * persistence